Galileo's Logical Treatises: A Translation, with Notes and Commentary, of His Appropriated Latin Questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics Book

by Galileo Galilei, William A. Wallace, W.A. Wallace

Hard as it is to believe, what is possibly Galileo's most important Latin manuscript was not transcribed for the National Edition of his works and so has remained hidden from scholars for centuries. In this volume William A. Wallace translates the logical treatises contained in that manuscript and makes them intelligible to the modern reader. He prefaces his translation with a lengthy introduction describing the contents of the manuscript, the sources...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792315790
• ISBN13: 9780792315797
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 600 Pages